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Sensitive Plumbing

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Location
Cromwell Hospital, London
A laminated white sign saying: Please Flush ONLY Toilet Paper. No sanitary products, hand towels or wipes. This toilet has sensitive plumbing, our plumber will thank you!
A laminated plea for restraint, issued on behalf of unusually delicate plumbing.

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Please Flush ONLY Toilet Paper. No sanitary products, hand towels or wipes. This toilet has sensitive plumbing, our plumber will thank you!

Commentary

This is the sign that started it all. “Sensitive plumbing” has an emotional delicacy about it. That made me want to take a picture of it.

I think “our plumber will thank you” is a potential mistake though. Presumably plumbers like having work. Particularly if they are on a day rate.

This was taken in a private hospital, which I was at because I had sensitive plumbing myself. A hospital isn’t the best place to have sensitive plumbing, and it wasn’t the best place for me to have sensitive plumbing in.